Acting DNI Pulte Fires Dozens of Intelligence Officials
Trump's pick to lead national intelligence has begun removing officials, marking a sweeping shake-up of the U.S. intelligence community.
Acting Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's deputy, Scott Pulte — President Donald Trump's controversial nominee to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — has begun firing dozens of intelligence officials, according to a report from MS Now. The dismissals signal an aggressive early move to reshape the leadership and personnel structure of one of the nation's most sensitive security agencies.
The firings mark a significant escalation in the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul the federal intelligence apparatus. Trump has made restructuring federal agencies a central priority since returning to office, and targeting the DNI's office puts the intelligence community directly in the crosshairs of his broader personnel strategy.
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The scale of the reported dismissals — described as dozens of officials — suggests this is not a routine personnel adjustment but a deliberate, top-down purge of career intelligence professionals. Such sweeping removals raise immediate questions about continuity of operations and the potential impact on ongoing national security missions that depend on institutional knowledge and long-standing inter-agency relationships.
Critics are likely to argue that mass firings within the intelligence community could leave dangerous gaps in the country's ability to monitor foreign threats, while supporters of the move may frame it as necessary housecleaning to root out what Trump allies have called a resistant bureaucracy. The full list of dismissed officials and their roles had not been publicly disclosed at the time of reporting.
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